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TITLE:
DYNAMICALLY VULCANIZABLE POLYOLEFIN COMPOSITIONS
The present invention relates to polyolefin composi-
tions which are capable of giving, after dynamic vulcanization,
thermoplastic elastomeric products having optimum elastomeric
properties and a good balance of elasto-mechanical properties.
In particular, the present invention relates to
polyolefin compositions comprising a crystalline polypropylene
phase and a substantially amorphous phase having elastomeric
properties.
As it is known, thermoplastic elastomers are materials
which, unlike conventional elastomers, can be processed by means
of apparatus usually associated with the use of thermoplastic
resins. Such products are used in various sectors, in particular
where articles are required which have a good combination of
elastic properties and mechanical properties, such as, for
example, in seal gaskets used in the automobile sector or in
some types of electrical household appliances. In these applica-
tions, they replace conventional elastomers which require long
processing work in three stages (mixing with additives, moulding
and crosslinking). Moreover, the thermoplastic elastomeric pro-
ducts, unlike the conventional elastomers used in thermoforming
processes, can be totally or partially recycled. Among the vari-
ous thermoplastic elastomeric products, dynamically vulcanized
compositions, comprising a crystalline or semicrystalline
polypropylene phase and an amorphoiis phase constituted generally
by an ethylene/a-olefin/diene rubber, are those which are most
suitable for the market demands, owing also to their fav urable
cost/performance balance. The said compositions are character-
ized by elastomeric properties which are still not satisfactory,
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because of both difficulties due to compatibility problems
between the elastomeric phase and the crystalline phase and the
presence of residual crystallinity in the elastomeric phase.
One of the methods proposed for improving the
compatibility of the two phases consists in producing the said
compositions directly in the reactor by means of sequential
polymerization in a multi-stage process. In the first stage, the
propylene-based crystalline copolymer is generally produced,
while the second stage comprises the polymerization of
ethylene/propylene mixtures in the presence of the product
obtained in the first stage, in order to obtain elastomeric
copolymers. Both stages of these processes are carried out in
the presence of the same catalytic system which generally con-
sists of a conventional catalyst of the Ziegler/Natta type com-
prising a titanium compound supported on a magnesium halide in
active form. Compositions obtained by means of this type of pro-
cess are described in Patents US 4,521,566 and US 5,286,564. An
analogous process is described in EP-A-433,989 and EP-A-433,990
in which an unsupported metallocene catalyst is used in both
polymerization stages. The products obtained in these processes,
however, do not have a suitable balance of physico-mechanical
properties.
It has now been unexpectedly found that some polyolefin
compositions, comprising a crystalline polypropylene phase and a
substantially amorphous phase characterized by specific
properties, are capable of giving, after dynamic vulcanization,
thermoplastic elastomeric compositions having improved
elastomeric properties and a better balance of elasto-mechanical
properties.
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A subject of the present inve~ntion is therefore a
polyolefin composition comprising:
(A) 20 to 50 parts by weight of a crystalline propylene
polymer having an isotacticity index greater than 80,
selected from polypropylene homopolymer and propylene
copolymers containing 0.5 to 15 molt of ethylene and/or
an a-olefin having 4 to 10 carbon atoms, the said
propylene polymer having a molecular weight distribu-
tion (MWD) greater than 3.5; and
(B) 50 to 80 parts by weight of an elastomeric ethylene
copolymer with olefins CH2=CHR, in which R is alkyl
having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and, if appropriate, con-
taining minor proportions of units derived from a
polyene, the said copolymer containing 40 to 70% by
weight of units derived from ethylene and 30 to 60% by
weight of units derived from an a-olefin, and having
the following characteristics: (a) a molecular weight
distribution lower than 3.5 and (b) a crystallinity
content, expressed as the enthalpy of fusion, lower
than 20 J/g.
Preferably, component (B) has a content of 2-1
regioinvertions of the a-olefin units of lower than 5%.
The molecular weight distribution, the crystallinity
content and the content of regioinvertions are determined by the
methods described later.
Preferably, the compositions of the present invention
comprise between 20 and 40 parts by weight of component (A) and
between 60 and 80 parts by weight of component (B), more prefer-
ably between 30 and 40 parts of component (A) and between 60 and
70 parts of component (B).
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The_propylene polymer which constitutes component (A
preferably has an isotactic index, determined by measurement of
the solubility in xylene, greater than 85 and more preferably
greater than 90.
It is preferable for the propylene polymer which con-
stitutes component (A) of the present invention to have an MWD
greater than 5 and generally between 5 and50.
The melt index (ASTM 1238 condition "L") of component
(A) is generally between 0.1 and 50g/10 minutes. The best
results are obtained when the melt index of these polymers is
between 0.1 and 30.
If component (A) of the invention consists of a
propylene copolymer, particularly interesting results are
obtained when copolymers containing from 2 to 10 mol% of an
alpha-olefin other than propylene are used. Preferably, the
alpha-olefin is selected from the group comprising ethylene,
1-butene, 1-hexene, 1-octene and 4-methyl-l-pentene. Among
these, ethylene and 1-butene are particularly preferred.
Component (A) of the present invention can be prepared
according to known technologies by polymerization of propylene,
if appropriate in the presence of ethylene or other a-olefins,
in the presence of conventional catalysts of-the Ziegler/Natta
type comprising the product ofthe reaction between an aluminium
alkyl and a solid component comprising atransition metal sup-
ported on MgC12 in an active form. In particular, the best
results are obtained when using catalysts comprising the product
of the reaction between:
(i) a solid component comprising a titanium compound
without Ti-zr bonds and an electron.donor compound
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(internal donor) supported on a magnesium halide in an
active form;
(ii) an Al-alkyl compound and, if appropriate, an electron
donor compound (external donor).
The use of an external electron donor compound is gen-
erally necessary to obtain propylene polymers having an
isotacticity index greater than 80. Nevertheless, if compounds
of the type described in Patent EP-A-361,493 are used as
internal electron donor compounds, the stereospecificity of the
catalyst is by itself sufficiently high and it is not necessary
to use an external electron donor compound.
The magnesium halides, preferably MgC12, in an active
form used as support for Ziegler-Natta catalysts are widely
known from the patent literature. The U.S. Patents 4,298,718 and
4,495,338 described for the first time the use of these
compounds in Ziegler-Natta catalysis. It is known from these
patents that the magnesium halides used in the active form as
support or co-support in catalyst components for the
polymerization of olefins are characterized by X-ray spectra in
which the most intense diffraction line appearing in the spectra
of the inactive halide is reduced in intensity and replaced by a
halo whose intensity maximum is displaced towards angles which
are smallerwith respect to that of the most intense line.
The titanium compound is preferably selected from the
halides and halogeno-alcoholates.
Preferred titanium compouilds are TiC14, TiC13 and the
halogeno-alcoholates of the formula Ti(OR1)mXn in which R1 is a
hydrocarbon radical with 1-12 carbon atoms or a group COR1, X is
halogen and (m+n) is the valency of the titanium.
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Advantageously, the catalytic component (i) is used in
the form of spherical particles having an average diameter of
between about 10 and 150 pm. Suitable methods for preparing-the
said components in a spherical form are described, for example,
in the Patents EP-A-395,083, EP-A-553,805 and EP-A-553,806, the
description of which, relating to the method of preparation and
to the characteristics of the products. - '
Suitable internal electrondanor compounds include the
ethers, esters and in particular the esters of polycarboxylio
acids, the amines, the ketones and the 1,3-diethers of the type
6escribed in the Patents EP-A-361,493, EP-A-361,494,
EP-A-362,705 and Eri-A-451,645_
The Al-alkyl compound (ii) is preferably selected from
the aluminium trialkyls, such as, for example, Al-triethyl, Al-
triisobutyl, Al-tri-n-butyl, A1-tri-n-hexyl and A1-tri-n-octyl.
Mixtures of Al-trialkyls with Al-alkyl halides, Al-alkyl
hydrides or Al-alkyl sesquichlorides such as A1Et3C1 and
A12Et3C13 may also be'used.
The external donor can be of the same type as or can
differ from the internal donor. If the internal donor is the
ester of a polycarboxylic acid, in particular a phthalate, the
external donor is preferably selected from the silicon compounds
of the formula R1R2Si (OR) 2, where Ri and R2 are alkyl, cycloallkyl
or aryl radicals having 3.-18 carbon atotns_ Examples of such
silanes are methyl-cyclohexyl-diraethoxy-silane, diphenyl-
dimethoxy-silane, methyl-t--butyl-dimethoxy--silane and
dicyclopentyl--dimethoxy-silane.
The elastomeXic copolymer used as component (B) is pre-
ferably selected from the copolymers of ethylene with a-olefins
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CH2=CHR in which R is alkyl having 1 to 6 carbon atoms. More
preferably, the a-olefin is propylene or butene.
In said copolymer, the content by weight of units
derived from ethylene is preferably between 50 and 70%, more
preferably between 60 and 70%. The content by weight of units
derived from a-olefins is preferably between 30 and 50%, more
preferably between 30 and 40%.
Particularly preferred moreover are the copolymers
which contain 0.1 to 20% by weight, preferably 1 to 10%, of
units derived from a polyene. Such a polyene can be selected
from the group comprising trans-l,4-hexadiene, cis-
1,4-hexadiene, 6-methyl-1,5-heptadiene, 3,7-dimethyl-
1,6-octadiene and 11-methyl-1,10-dodecadiene; monocyclic
diolefins such as, for example, cis-1,5-cyclooctadiene and
5-methyl-1,5-cyclooctadiene; bicyclic diolefins such as, for
example, 4,5,8,9-tetrahydroindene and 6- and/or 7-methyl-
4,5,8,9-tetrahydroindene; alkenyl- or alkylidene-norbornenes
such as, for example, 5-ethylidene-2-norbornene,
5-isopropylidene-2-norbornene and exo-5-isopropenyl-
2-norbornene; polycyclic diolefins such as, for example,
dicyclopentadiene, tricyclo[6.2.1.02,7]4,9-undecadiene and the
4-methyl derivative thereof, 1,4-hexadiene, isoprene,
1,3-butadiene, 1,5-hexadiene, 1,6-heptadiene and so on. Among
these, 5-ethylidene-2-norbornene is particularly preferred.
As already noted, the elastomeric copolymer used in the
present invention is characterized by a low crystallinity. Pre-
ferably, the crystallinity, expressed as the enthalpy of fusion
determined by DSC analysis, is lower than 10 J/g, more preferab-
ly lower than 5.
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Preferably, the elastomeric copolymer used in the pres-
ent invention has an MWD of lower than 3, generally of between 2
and 3.
Moreover, the said elastomeric copolymer preferably has
a content of 2-1 regioinvertions of the e-olefin units of lower
than 3%, more preferably lower than 1%.
The said copolymer can advantageously be prepared by
polymerizing mixtures of ethylene, alpha-olefin and, if appro-
priate, polyene in the presence of a catalytic system comprising
a metallocene compound and an alumoxane.
Some examples of metallocene compounds which can be
used are rac-ethylidene-bis(4,5,6,7-tetrahydroindenyl) zirconium
dichloride and meso-ethylidene-bis(4,7-dimethylindenyl)zirconium
dichloride.
Particularly suitable alumoxane compounds are,_methyl
alumoxane (MAO) and tetraisobutyl alumoxane (TIBAO).
The polyolefin compositions according to the present
invention can be obtained by using known methodologiessuch as
mechanical mixing of the two components by means of internal
mixers of the Banbury type, having a high homogenizing power.
Alternatively, the said compositions can advantageously be
obtained directly in the reactor by means of sequential
polymerization. The compositions obtained according to this
technique in fact_showbetter_elastomeric properties than those
of the compositions obtained by simple mechanical mixing.
A further subject of the present invention is therefore
a polyolefin composition obtained by means of sequential
polymerization, comprising: - -
(A) 20 to 50 parts by weight of a crystalline propylene
polymer having an isotacticity index greater than 80,
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selected from polypropylene homopolymer and propylene
copolymers cofitaining 0.5 to 15 mol-% of ethylene
and/or an e-olefin having 4 to 10 carbon atoms, the
said propylene polymer having a molecular weight dis-
tribution (MWD) greater than 3.5; and
(B) 50 to 80 parts by weight of an elastomeric ethylene
copolymer with olefins CH2=CHR, in which R is alkyl
having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and, if appropriate, con-
taining minor proportions of units derived from a
polyene, the said copolymer containing 40 to 70% by
weight of units derived from ethylene and 30 to 60% by
weight of units derived from an e-olefin, and having
the following characteristics: (a) an MWD lower than
3.5 and (b) a crystallinity content, expressed as the
enthalpy of fusion, lower than 20 J/g.
Preferably, the said compositions comprise between 20
and 40 parts by weight of component (A) and between 60 and 80
parts by weight of component (B), more preferably between 30 and
40 parts of component (A) and between 60 and 70 parts of compo-
nent (B).
The propylene polymer constituting component (A) pre-
ferably has an isotactic index, determined by means of measuring
the solubility in xylene, greater than 85, more preferably
greater than 90, and an MWD greater than 5, generally between 5
and 50.
Component (B) is preferably selected from the
copolymers of ethylene with c-olefins CH2=CHR in which R is
alkyl having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, more preferably containing 0.1
to 20% by weight, preferably 1 to 10%, of units derived from one
of the polyenes cited. The content by weight of units derived
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from ethylene is preferably between 50 and 70%, more preferabTy
between 60 and 70%. The content by weight of units derived from
the e-olefin is preferably between 30 and 50%, more preferably
between 30 and 40%.
Also as stated above, the crystallinity of the said
copolymer, expressed as the enthalpy of fusion determined by DSC
analysis, is preferably lower than 10 J/g, more preferably lower
than 5. Moreover, the elastomeric copolymer shows an MWD which
is preferably lower than 3, generally between 2 and 3.
The abovementioned compositions are preferably prepared
by the process described in the Patent Application
M194A-002,028. The said process comprises a first stage in
which, in the presence ofa catalyst having a spherical morphol-
ogy and containing a titanium compound supported on MgCl2 in an
active form, the olefin polymer constituting component (A) of
the present invention is prepared by polymerization of
propylene, if appropriate in a mixture with other alpha-olefins.
In the second stage of the process, the product obtained in the
first stage is:
(a) contacted with a compound capable of deactivating the
catalyst present; and
(b) contacted with a catalyst comprising a compound of a
transition metal M selected fromTi, V, Zr and Hf, con-
taining at least one M-ff bond.
Finally, in the third stage, in the presence of the
product obtained in the second stage, a mixture of ethylene,
alpha-olefin and, if appropriate, a polyene is polymerized to
obtain component (B) of thepresent invention, which is thus
obtained dispersed in the crystalline matrix prepared in the
first stage.
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In addition to the properties illustrated above, the
compositions obtained by this process also have optimum
morphol-ogical properties which evidently result from the spherical or
spheroidal form of the polymer particles.
The compositions which are the subject of the present
invention are subjected to vulcanization or crosslinking in
order to produce thermoplastic elastomeric compositions for use
in the application sectors cited above.
The terms vulcanization and crosslinking comprise both
the actual crosslinking or vulcanization of the elastomer and
the reaction by means of which the grafting of the more or less
crosslinked elastomer on the crystalline polypropylene phase can
take place as a result of the reaction promoted by the
crosslinking system used.
Among the various vulcanization techniques known in the
art, the preferred technique is dynamic vulcanization. When
working according to this technique, the compositions of the
invention are subjected to kneading or to other shear forces in
the presence of crosslinking agents and, if appropriate,
coadjuvants thereof, at temperatures between 140 and 240 C, pre-
ferably at temperatures higher than the melting point of the
crystalline phase. The compositions of the invention can be
impregnated with an oil extender for regulating their hardness,
either before the addition of the crosslinking agent or at the
start or end of vulcanization. The oil extender used can be of
various types, for example aromatic, naphthenic or preferably
paraffinic. It is used in quantities such that weight ratios
between the oil extender and component B of between 1:5 and 5:1,
preferably between 1:2 and 2:1, are obtained.
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The crosslinking agents which can be used are those
commonly known in the art, such as organic peroxides, preferably
having a half-life of the order of 10-200 seconds in the
temperature range in which crosslinking normally_takes -place,
and non-peroxidic agents such as the derivatives of
1,2-diphenylmethane, 1,2-diphenylethane and benzopinacol. A par-
ticularly suitable group of non-peroxidic agents consists of the
furan derivatives described in EP 361,205, among which difur-
furalaldazine and 1,5-difurfuryl-l,4-pentadien-3-one prove to be
preferable.
As coadjuvant compounds for the crosslinking, liquid
1,2-polybutadiene or compounds of the triallyl cyanurate type
can be used.
Before they are subjected to dynamic vulcanization, the
compositions of the invention can be provided with various addi-
tives, such as heat stabilizers, antioxidants, mineral fillers
or any other type of agents customarily used in the art.
A further subject of the invention is therefore
vulcanized thermoplastic compositions obtained by the vulcaniz-
ation processes described above, as manufactured, as well as
moulded articles obtainable from the said compositions.
As can be seen from the tests reported in Table 2, the
vulcanized compositions of the present invention show improved
elastic properties over those of -the previously known composi-
tions. This becomes evident from a comparison of the said compo-
sitions with known compositions having either similar
crystallinity values or similar values of ethylene content in
component (B). Both the compositions obtained directly in a
reactor and those obtained by mechanical blending show tension-
set and compression-set values better than those of the known
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art, while maintaining at the same time a good balance of
elasto-mechanical properties. In particular, the dynamically
vulcanized compositions show values of ultimate tensile stress
greater than 5 MPa, tension-set values at 100 C which are always
lower than 20%, and compression-set free values always lower
than 45% and, in the best cases, lower than 35%. Moreover, the
behaviour of the compositions of the present invention when
impregnated with the oil extender is particularly interesting.
The tendency of compounds of low molecular weight to exude
(blooming) is considerably lower than that of the compositions
of the prior art.
The following examples are given for illustrative pur-
poses and do hot limit the invention itself.
The indicated properties are determined by the follow-
ing methods:
- Melt flow index: ASTM-D 1238, condition "L"
- Fraction soluble in xylene: determined at 25 C by the fol-
lowing procedures:
About 2.5 g of copolymer and 250 ml of xylene are placed in
a flask prcvided with a cooler_and reflux condenser, under a
blanket of NZ. The flask is heated to 131 C and continuously
stirred for about 60 minutes. it is allowed to cool with
stirring down to 250C, the contents are filtered and, after
evaporation of the solvent of the filtrate down to dryness
at constant weight, the weight of the soluble material is
obtained.
- Comonomer content: percent by weight of comonomer determined
via the I.R. spectrum.
- Effective density: ASTM-D 792 =
- Intrinsic viscosity: ASTM 2857-70
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- The measurements byFdifferential scanning calorimetry (DSP
were carried nut on an instrument DSC-7 from Perkin Elmer
Co. Ltd., according to the following procedure. About 10 mg
of sample are heated to 180 C at a scanning rate equal to
C/minute; the sample is- held at 180 C for 5 minutes and
then cooled at a scanning rate equal to l0 C/minute. A sec-
ond scan is then carried out under the same conditions as
the first. The values reported are those obtained in the
first scan.
- np+er,.,;natinn of the MWD:.determined by GPC on a Waters
instrument 150 in orthodichlorobenzene at 150 C.
- PPtArmination cf the recrioinvertions: determined..by means of
C13-NMR according to the methodology described by
J.C. Randall in "Polymer sequence determination Carbon 13
NMR method", Academic Press 1977. The content of -
regioinvertions is calculated on the basis of the relative
concentration of Sap + Spp methylene sequences.
- Compression set 1000C;_..ASTM D395methodB__
- Compression set free;_ the,procedure isthe same as for the
compression set at 100 C, with the difference that, before
the measurement, the sample is placed in an oven for 30 min-
utes at 100 C.
- Tension set 100 C: ASTM D412, using asample_according to
ASTM 1329.
- Tension set 23 C; .ASTM_D41_2., using a_ sample_according to
ASTM 1329.
- Elonsxation at break; ASTM D412, using a microspecimen.
- Ultimate tensile strencxth; ASTM D412, using a microspecimen.
- Shore A hardness: ASTM D2240.
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EXFaI3PLE 1
PreParation of an elastomeric composition directly in the
reactor (composition 1)
Preparation of component A (Stage 1)
0.00307 g of a solid catalytic component, prepared
according to Example No. 3 of Patent EP-A-395,083, were pre-con-
tacted in a 50 ml glass flask with 0.0856 g of triethylaluminium
(TEAL) and 0.01713 g of dicyclopentyldimethoxysilane (DCPMS) in
8 ml of anhydrous hexane. The mixture was fed to a 4.25 1 steel
autoclave, previously purged by successive washings first with
hexane for one hour at 80 C and then with gaseous propylene for
one hour at 80 C. 1700 g of liquid propylene together with
4500 ml of hydrogen were then fed at 300C. The temperature was
taken to 700C and a polymerization took place for 150 minutes to
give 50 g of polypropylene having the following properties:
IV = 1.59 dl/g; insoluble in xylene = 96.2% by weight.
Intermediate treatment (Stage 21
After degassing the propylene from stage 1, 1000 ml of
hexane humidified with 0.0107 g of H20 are fed into the same
reactor, to the polymer produced in stage 1. The hexane was left
in contact with the polymer for 30 minutes at 50 C in a nitrogen
atmosphere. The liquid was siphoned out of the reactor, and sev-
eral purges with vacuum/nitrogen cycles were carried out at
ambient temperature. 500 g of liquid propane at a temperature of
50 C and a pressure of 19.5bar were then charged to the same
reactor. 0.008 g of rac-EBTHIZrC12," precontacted in cyclohexane
with 1.87 mmol of TIBAO for 10 minutes at 25 C, were then fed
in. The polymer was left in contact with this mixture for
minutes at 40 C. The propane was removed by evaporation at
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40 C, and several purges with gaseous propylene were theTi
carried out_at 40 C in order to eliminate the residual propane.
Preparation of combonent B(Staae 3)
In the same reactor at 40 C, 47.2 g of ethylene and
60.5 g of propylene were fed to the polymer treated in stage 2.
The composition of the copolytner was kept constant by feeding a
mixture of the two monomers with 70% by weight of ethylene.
Copolymerization was carried out for 5 hours at 40 C and
15.5-bar. This gave 149 g of a copolymer whose properties are
shown in Table l.
EXAMPLE 2
Preparation of an elastomeric composition directly in the
reactor (comoosition 2)
Prepara ion of component A (Stage 1)
0.00916 g of a solid catalytic component, prepared
according to Example No. 3 of Patent EP-A-395,083, were pre-con-
tacted in a 50 ml glass flask with 0.0856 g of triethylaluminium
(TEAL) and 0.01713 g of dicyclopentyldimethoxysilane (DCPMS) in
8 ml of anhydrous hexane.
Following the procedure described in Example 1, except
that 982 ml of hydrogen were used and the polymerization was
carried out for 1 hour, 49.5 g of polypropylene were obtained,
having the following properties: IV = 2.01 dl/g; insoluble in
xylene = 96.1% by weight. -
Intermediate treatment (Staae 2) The procedure described in Example 1 is
repeated, but
using 0.001g of ineso-EBDMIZrC1Z, precontacted in cyclohexane
for 10 minutes at 25 C with 0.4214 mmol of MMAO.
Preparation of component B(Staae 3)
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In the same reactor at 40 C, 27.4 g of ethylene and
70.4 g of propylene were fed to the polymer treated in stage 2.
The composition of tho copolyner was kept constant by feeding a
mixture of the two monomers with 70% by weight of ethylene.
Copolymarization was carried out for 64 minutes at 40 C and
13 bar. This gave 161.5 g of a copolymer whose properties are
shown in Table 1.
ERAHPLB 3
37.3 g of the composition obtainel in Example 1 were
impregnated with 24.7 g of F3exon U76 paraffin oil in such a way
that a final mixture having a weight ratio between component B
and oil equal to 1:1 was obtained. This mixture (62 g) waS
introduced into an internal mixer of the Banbury typa (volume
60 ml) at a temperature of 180 C, at 60 r.p.m. together with
1.235 g,of a master batch with 80% by weight of ZnO, 0.988 g of
,õ .
Lithene PH (liquid polybutadiene), 0.136 g of di-fur-
furalaldazine and 0.124 g of Chimassorb 944 and mixed for
2 minutes. Then, 0.988 g of Trigonox 101/40 I4fl GR were intro-
duced and the mixture was mixed for a further 6 minutes for the
dynamic crosslinking of the product. 30 g of mixture were
moulded in a plate preas for 5 minutes at 2000C and then cooled
in a second press maintained for 10 minutes at 23 pC. After con-
ditioning at ambient temperature for 48 hours, the plates
obtained (120 x 120 x 2 mm) were characterized by the following
analytic techniques: tension aet, compression set, ultimate
stress and elongation at break, Sho're A hardness. The results of
the characterization are shown in Table 2.
~XAMPLE <
36.6 g of the composition obtained in Example 2 were
impregnated with 25.4 g of Plexon 876 paraffin oil in such a way
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that a final mixture having a weight ratio between component B
and oil equal to lcl was obtained. This mixture (62 g) was
introduced into an internal mixer of the -Banbury -type (volume
60 ml) at a temperature of 180 C, at 60 r.p.m. together with
1.27 g of a masterbatch with 80% by weight of ZnO, 1.02 g of
Lithene PH (liquid polybutadiene), 0.140 g of di-fur-
furalaldazine and 0.127 g of Chimassorb 944 and mixed for
2 minutes. Then, 1.02 g of Trigonox 101/40 MD GR were introduced
and the mixture was mixed for a further 6 minutes for the
dynamic crosslinking of the product. The moulding and the char-
acterization took place as in Example 3. The results of the
characterization are givenin Table 2.
ERhMPLE 5
32.6 g of a composition obtained according to the pro-
cedure of Example 2 were impregnated with 29.4 g of Flexon 876
paraffin oil in such a way that a final mixture having a weight
ratio between component B and oil equal to 1:1.3 was obtained.
This mixture (62 g) was introduced into an internal mixer of the
Banbury type (volume 60 ml) at a temperature of 180 C, at
60 r.p.m. together with 1.22 g of a masterbatch of 80% by weight
of ZnO, 0.976 g of Lithene PH (liquid polybutadiene), 0.134 g of
di-furfuralaldazine and 0.125 g of Chimassorb 944 and mixed for
2 minutes. Then, 0.976 g of Triganox 101/40 MD GR were
introduced and the mixture was mixed for a further 6 minutes for
the dynamic crosslinking of the product. The moulding and the
characterization took place as in Bxample 3. The results of the
characterization are given in Table 2.
ERAMPLE 6
39.8 g of an elastomeric C2/C3 copolymer containing
67.5% by weight of C2 and having an I.V. = 2.9were mixed_in an
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internal mixer of the Banbury type (volume 60 ml) at a tempera-
ture of 1950C, at 60 r.p.m. for 4 minutes together with 20.2 g
of polypropylene produced in stage 1 of Example 1 in the pres-
ence of 0.12 g of Irganox 1010 as processing stabilizer. 37.3 g
of this mixture (combosition 3) were impregnated with 24.7 g of
Flexon 876 paraffin oil in such a way that a final mixture hav-
ing a weight ratio between component B and oil equal to 1:1 was
obtained. This mixture (62 g) was introduced into an internal
mixer of the Banbury type (volume 60 ml) at a temperature of
180 C, at 60 r.p.m. together with 1.235 g of a master batch of
80% by weight of ZnO, 0.988 g of Lithene PH (liquid
polybutadiene), 0.136 g of di-furfuralaldazine and 0.124 g of
Chimassorb 944, and mixed for 2 minutes. Then, 0.988 g of
Trigonox 101/40 MD GR were introduced and the mixture was mixed
for a further 6 minutes for the dynamic crosslinking of the
product. The moulding and the characterization took place as in
Example 3. The results of the characterization are given in
Table 2.
Example 7 (comparison)
The procedure of Example 3 is repeated using, in place
of composition 1, 37.5 g of comnosition 4 which was obtained
directly in the reactor and in which the component B is charac-
terized by an ethylene content of 26% and an MWD of 10 and a
crystallinity of 10 J/g (Table 1). The composition is processed
as in Example 3, using 24.5 g of oil, 0.994 g of Lithene PH,
0.137 g of di-furfuralaldazina, 0.124 g of Chimassorb and
0.944 g of Trigonox. The results of the characterization are
given in Table 2.
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The procedure of Example 3 is repeated using, in place
of composition 1, 38.75 g of comnosition 5 wh_ich was obtained
directly in the reactor and in which the component B is charac-
terized by an ethylene content of 65%, an MWD of 8 and a
crystallinity of 35 J/g (Table 1). The composition is processed
as in Example 3, using 23.25 g of oil, 1.163 g of ZnO, 0.93 g of
Lithene PH, 0.128 g of di-furfuralaldazina, 0.116 g of
Chimassorb and 0.93 g of Trigonox. The results of the character-
ization are given in Table 2.
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